Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Mon 14th Jul 2008 21:55 UTC, submitted by SK8T
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has released version 2.6.26 of the Linux kernel after a lengthy three-month development stretch since the 2.6.25 release involving nine release candidates. In announcing the release on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, Torvalds said the 87 days since 2.6.25 makes 2.6.26 a longer-than-usual release cycle. Torvalds said the changes from release candidate (RC) 9 are small, with the bulk (80 percent) being documentation updates.
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One possible reason: consistency. When you have x86 in more numbers, the management frameworks using it such as libvirt or virt-manager can be reused for other architectures if the underlying technology is same or similar. While libvirt can abstract away these details, it is useful when it is ported and available everywhere.